I'M AN ADULT NOW AND I CAN DO WHAT I WANT

OH HELLO.  I didn't see you there.  Welcome to this blog.

GUESS WHAT:  I have finished Lou #4, and it is available at the Oily Boutique.  Guess what else.  The brand new issues of Chuck's TEOTFW and Max's Moose are also there!!!   GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE HOT.

A bit about Lou:  Lou Number 4 takes place on Halloween.  As I'm writing these issues,  I've noticed how bits from movies I loved as a kid come through, like E.T., the Sandlot, Flight of the Navigator, Homeward Bound...  And I am falling in love more and more with Lou's family.  I was originally just going to be focusing on Lou and her relationship with the dog, Sammy (who is based on my own dog I had as a child, of the same name, the greatest dog in the world).  But Eddie, Lou's big brother, has taken on all of these stories I've heard from Chuck about his teenage life, and her little brother John has his own funny personality now too.  Lou's parents are based on adult couples that I've admired throughout my life, and my relationship with Chuck as well.   I feel like I'm trying to learn how to write convincing, heartfelt adult characters without taking away from the attention that I pay to the younger ones.  MAYBE I AM GROWING UP??

Some samples of from Lou #4:

AND AN ADDED BONUS!!!!

My good friend and classmate from CCS, Matt Aucoin, did a whole comic featuring Freddy and Uncle Sully!  It's so awesome.  He knows Freddy so well!  Check out Matt's work here!

Number Two, Travels, Hog Wild, Muster

1.  Recently I've become obsessed with the phrase "Whole Hog."

2.  I finished the second issue of Lou!  In which, we have dinner, and meet the parents.  I am growing really attached to these characters, I love them very much, and I hope you will too....

Here is the cover:



and page 5:



Available for purchase at my online store,  and at the Oily Boutique, where you buy many other fine items; and soon at many fine stores across the U.S.

OR

3. You could buy it at the following comic conventions:
MoCCA in NYC(I won't have my own table, but will be around, and sometimes at the Secret Acres table
TCAF in Toronto (Where I'm doing a workshop for kids!  More on that later...)
MECAF in Portland, ME
CAKE in Chicago.  A new show, that I'm super excited about.  I've never been to the windy city...

I don't think I'm forgetting any?  COMICS!

Other News:

Charles has started what promises to be a huge, and admirable, and wonderful undertaking: The Muster List, a directory of sorts for where to buy comics, organized by artists's names.  There really isn't anything else like this anywhere right now, and he woke up one morning with the idea in his head, and did it.  And it's great.

Joe Lambert's new book is out and for sale! I don't have one yet, but can't wait to get my paws on one.

And Sean Ford's book collecting his series Only Skin will be debuting at MoCCA!

Whole Hog. Hog Wild. (what other phrases have Hog in them?)

ok.  bye.